How many copper pennies make a pound?:shrug:

[jimmyk]

A friend of mine told me that copper pennies are now worth three cents a piece. Later I started thinking about whether I should take them to a recycling unit that buys copper. Are they worth more than face value that way? Or should I just roll them up and cash them in at my bank. What are you folks doing with your copper pennies?

keep on diggin'

jimmyk in Missouri

 

[dave5710]

Three rolls should be right at a pound. Recyclers shouldn't be buying pennies since it isn't legal. Most coin searchers are hoarding them in the hopes that a law will be passed that will made it legal. I can't see having buckets of pennies, sitting around.
Count out 150 and take them to the grocery store, the next time you go. The cashier there should be willing to weight them. Their scales are USDA tested every year.

 

[D&P-OR]

Jimmy-----I've wondered about that exact same thing myself for some time now.---If it's worth the fuss of seperateing the "coppers" from the "zincs".---The so called "copper" pennies run up to 1982 & in that switch over year (1982), they minted both coppers & zincs.---Then of course from then on (to date) they are all zincs.---So the bottom line & what it amounts to, not counting "wheaties" which run from 1909 thru 1958-----a person would be seperateing copper pennies from the years 1959 thru 1981.---I don't think it would be at all worth trying to seperate coppers & zincs in the year 1982 as they did mint both in that year & the (main) way you could tell the difference in them (for that year 1982) is by weighing them on a scale (which I have done & it's a pain).-----As for the value of the coppers at this time----I DUNNO.------Like you, I would be very interested to find out though.-----Anybody else got any ideas on this thing??? ---------Del

 

[dave5710]

Use could use a metal detector to separate all your memorials into two piles. No eye strain, no rubbing the date. Use VDI or sound.

 

[AUDuke]

I have heard that it takes 144 copper Penny's to make a pound, but haven't checked it. In 1980 i heard that they were going to stop making them out of copper so I bought a $100.00 worth and still have them.

 

[jim tn]

Common date wheats,copper and zinc, I clean them and turn them into the bank. I used to save all the wheaties, but no longer do. I check the dates and then clean them and put them back in circulation. HH jim tn

 

[D&P-OR]

dave 5710---Now why didn't I think of that. (useing a detector for the seperation of zincs & coppers)---I guess my brain was in "neutral" on that one!!! -------jm tn--We've been cleaning all the coppers & zincs and cashing them in also.---The wife & I have jar fulls of ever wheatie that we have ever found.---Just think they are neat & they are getting harder & harder to find (for us anyway). -----------Del

 

[grumpy]

Hey guys dont just cash in wheats; Most coin shops will pay 2 cents for any road kill wheats. That adds up to double your money ;
good luck
Grumpy